Do meet personally your online friends?
By careguarden
@careguarden (5670)
Philippines
December 12, 2009 3:10am CST
I have a lot of online friends but none of them I've meet personally. They just remain a cyber friends. How about you, do you see your online friends in person and hang out with them?
12 responses
@dpk262006 (58678)
• Delhi, India
12 Dec 09
Hi care!
I have not have any such opportunity to meet my on-line friends, though I would much like to see them in person. I know it would be delightful and enjoyable experience to have a face to face chat with my on-line friends and if any such meeting takes place, I'll come more closer to my on-line friend(s).
dpk
PS - Have sent you a request for add, please add.
@dpk262006 (58678)
• Delhi, India
13 Dec 09
Hi care!
I am feeling immensely delighted to read your comments that given the chance you would like to see me in person.. It would also be a great pleasure for me to see you in person. I presume that you are a very caring person, as your posts and log in suggest.
@careguarden (5670)
• Philippines
13 Dec 09
Yeah, I've already added you. Thank you very much, and sorry for taking a bit long time accepting your request.
Yeah, it's gonna be exciting meeting some people you know online. Like you, if given a chance I would like see you personally. Well who knows someday! Anyway thank you for sharing with us and enjoy your day!
@Norah0804 (165)
• China
12 Dec 09
I have met some person online, but they are my schoolmate, we came to know each other on the school internet. I guess meeting a stranger is a little dangerous, for internet is a place fulfilled with uncertain factors.
@careguarden (5670)
• Philippines
13 Dec 09
Yeah, it can be real dangerous meeting someone you hardly know. But I think if you feel that the person can be trusted, based on the length of time you know each other, it could be enough and make feel safe. Anyway thank you for sharing with us my friend and enjoy your day!
@alleroid16 (943)
• Philippines
12 Dec 09
yea, i have met two of them. actually, one of them is my close friend. actually, i accidentally met her, because she just texted me that morning that she will at my place. well, at the late afternoon she called me and she said that she's now in our city and she dont know where to go. i'm really shock, because i never thought she will visit me in that way and in a split second. well, i'm really grateful meeting her. and i'm happy! :]
@careguarden (5670)
• Philippines
13 Dec 09
Oh, that's good for you. It's good to know that people we know online can be real good friends. Because I heard a lot of stories about people whom they know online and when they met them personally, it became a big disaster. Anyway thank you for sharing with us and enjoy your day!
@msfrancisco9369 (10002)
• Boston, Massachusetts
13 Dec 09
Hi Careguarden,
No. i haven't experienced meeting personally my online friends. if somebody will organize one for a reunion, i will consider coming to meet them all. it will be fun. someone started a similar discussion like yours and we even extended the discussion of having an international gathering --why not right?
@chriszh22 (432)
• China
13 Dec 09
When I was twenty, internet just started to boom in China, people feel fresh for internet friends. I was also so crazy about internet chatting and making friends on internet. More than that, people will ask out to meet each other after some chattings, most of them try to find boyfriend or girlfriend through internet and few get married finally just like me lol.
@fsll518 (304)
• China
12 Dec 09
Yes, I did. In Oct., my friend from USA came to visit China. We met and spend some time together.
I think people will do that only if they both feel comfortable to do that.
It is also natural they have worries about scammer, or they are afraid of meeting unpleasant or boring people in person. They tend to avoid any danger.
Some people may believe that cyber world is another dimention of the society, not to intefere with each other.
There are also some people sincerely looking for loving relationship on internet, but that's not the majority.
@careguarden (5670)
• Philippines
13 Dec 09
Well it's nice that you have pleasant experienced meeting those people you know through online. Yeah, it's inevitable that we feel a bit scared and threaten meeting people we met online. As their are some people who experienced trouble meeting those cyber friends, like you said, those scammers, or just having fun and not telling their true identity. Anyway thank you for sharing with us and enjoy your day!
@surveygeeek (189)
• United States
12 Dec 09
I have met a couple people in real life that I was friends with online, and with one exception, it's never worked out. Not that anything terrible happened to me, they're just never what they seemed to be online. The one exception was a girl that I dated for about a year after meeting her on planetout.com. We've long since broken up, but we're still friends, and there are tons of things in my life that I wouldn't have found if it wasn't for her. However, all the other people I've tried to meet have been weird and awkward and nothing like what they said.
@amyson (3498)
• Philippines
12 Dec 09
so far i haven't meet my online friends because they are outside my country if happen they are also living in my place maybe we can meet and have a coffee.sharing ideas and views since mostly of my online friends are foreigner.if given a chance knowing them i will welcome them with open arms.
@blestrella (176)
• Philippines
12 Dec 09
No, but I would love to esp. because we share the same interests.
@razvaneison (298)
• Romania
12 Dec 09
I have a lot of online friends. i met with some but not with all.If your ealy want to met with your online friend you will do it
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12 Dec 09
I have online friend's that I made through various networking places which I have met a few off them offline. But if they're creepy I totally ditch them. But a couple have become really good friends.